Colored-fire compound



* iTED STATES JOHN HER-ZOG, on BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

COLORED-"FIRE COMPOUND.

SPECIFICATION forniing partof Letters Patent No. 309,948, dated December30,1884. 7 Application filed October 16, 1884. (Specimen-s.)

'. To all whom it" may concern: 1

Be it known that I, JOHN Hnnzoe a citize of heir-{I n ted tsotahesrsiding .atnilielt 'in'oj re; i nthe' State of: Maryland, have invent-5'1ed a new and useful Improvement in Compositions to be Used. asColored Fire for Tableaux, 820., of which the following is aspecification. v My invention consists in'the' addition 'of -[Ovegetable fiber dyed to the color therfire will stone, and one partvegetable fiber dyed with 20 blue aniline. These ingredients are to be cthoroughly mixed.

By the old way of making colored fire the compounds .look all alikei.6., colorless. By my new process the parties using the five 2 5 can tellat a glance the exact color the compound will produce when it is to beburned.

I claim as a new manufaoture A. colored, fire comprising-the usualchemical ingredients to produce the flame of the de- 3c sired shade, andhaving in admixture therewith sawdust or like vegetable fiber dyed orstained toa color similar to that which will be produced by the mixturewhen burned. v

' Y JOHN HERZOG.

WVitnesses:

W. WILLQUGHBY, E. A. NEWMAN.

